Basketball Manitoba Super Coaches Clinic

October 20-21, 2017University of Manitoba Investors Group Athletic Centre

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Basketball Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba are excited to announce the details the eighth annual 'Super Coaches Clinic' weekend scheduled for October 20-21, 2017 at the University of Manitoba Investors Group Athletic Centre. The clinic comes as a partnership with the University of Manitoba Bisons and University of Winnipeg Wesmen as a joint offering to the basketball community. The clinic will run at the same time as the province wide 'SAGE' in-service day on Friday October 20 and is registered as a professional development event by the Manitoba Physical Education Teachers Association (MPETA). The below information will be updated in early fall 2017 on the specifics of the 2017 clinic. To be automatically updated on when the details are set, please subscribe to our weekly FastBreak newsletter.

The WMBA will be pausing all league games over the clinic weekend to ensure each coach can attend and is covering the cost for all its league coaches to attend the sessions. The clinic features 12 hours of presentations over the two days and features a wide range of topics for all levels of basketball. Register today for Manitoba's premier basketball coaching event! Attend one day at the early bird rate of $90 or come to both for $115! Early bird pricing is until September 30 of which the fee will increase to $100 and $125 per person respectively. Deadline to register isWednesday October 19, 2016 at 4:30 pm.

Basketball Manitoba, the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations who helped make this weekend possible!

Exclusive access to view a number of practices hosted by the Wesmen & Bison coaches in the days prior to the clinic (see below for schedule).

Early access to view select the presentation through online video in the weeks following the clinic. General public gets access in January. View past clinic videos now...(please note that the Rick Torbett sessions will not be video taped as requested by the presenter.)

FRIDAY COACHES - Entry for a Grand Prize Draw for a trip for a coach in attendance to Las Vegas in May 2017 for the Nike Championship Coaches Clinic (see below).

NIKE CHAMPIONSHIP CLINIC LAS VEGAS PRIZE DRAW - FRIDAY COACHES
Every coach in attendance ON FRIDAY at the Basketball Manitoba Super Coaches Clinic will be entered for door prizes throughout the weekend! The FRIDAYgrand prize will consist of a trip to Las Vegas April 28-30, 2017 for the Nike Championship Basketball Coaches Clinic! This Las Vegas clinic is considered thepremier basketball coaches clinic in the world! This prize includes return air fair out of Winnipeg to and from Las Vegas, hotel accommodation and the Nike Coaches Clinic fee. The prize is valued at over $1500.00 and must be accepted as presented (no cash value or exchanges). The draw will be made at the end of the Friday sessions and the winner DOES need to be in attendance to win the award. Good luck!Past Las Vegas Trip Winners

2009 - Patrick Kerr - Tyndall Park CC

2010 - Darrell Nicholson - North Kildonan CC

2011 - Jake Vezeau - Dakota CC

2012 - Tony Hayden - Saskatchewan

2013 - Bernard Kanakm - Sisler HS

2014 - Krishna Armogan - Andrew Mynarski School

2015 - Jay Primeau - Saskatchewan

2016 - TBA

TEAM PRIZE PACK PRIZE DRAW - SATURDAY COACHES

Every coach in attendance on SATURDAYat the Basketball Manitoba Super Coaches Clinic will be entered for door prizes throughout the weekend! The SATURDAY grand prize will consist of a Team Prize pack for one lucky coach in attendance including...

6 New Wilson Evolution Basketballs ($360 value)

1 Wilson Basketball Equipment Bag ($40 value)

12 - 2016-17 Wesmen Basketball Season Passes ($600 value)

12 - 2016-17 Bison Basketball Season Passes ($600 value)

12 Basketball Manitoba T-Shirts ($120 value)

2 Fox40 Dry Erase Coaches Boards ($80 value)

2 Fox40 Whistles ($10 value)

50 Basketball Scoresheets ($24 value)

The prize is valued at over $1700.00 and must be accepted as presented (no cash value or exchanges). The draw will be made at the end of the Saturday sessions and the winner DOES need to be in attendance to win the award. Good luck! Past Team Prize Pack Winners

2011 - Darin Arnold - Portage la Prairie

2012 - Manfred Glor - Linden Christian

2013 - Chris Geraille - Norway House

2014 - Peter Robertson-Stovel - Riverview CC

2015 - Ryan Diehl - Glenboro

2016 - TBA

Note: Past Las Vegas and Team Prize Award Winners, current Basketball Manitoba Board members and staff are not eligible for either of the Grand Prize Draws.

2016 SUPER COACHES CLINIC PRESENTERS

Rick Torbett - Basketball Basketball

Rick Torbett spent 20 years as a high school coach, teaching math and basketball. During that time, he won over 70% of his games at four separate schools. When BetterBasketball.com was founded, Rick focused his attention on teaching players and coaches through a new medium. He wrote, filmed, and edited a series of player development videos designed specifically to teach the game from the ground up. He approached these videos the same way he had approached the classroom, breaking down the components of player development so that they were easier to understand and thus easier to incorporate into a player’s game.

Because of this approach, the Better Basketball videos have been sold in over 100 countries. He has written articles on basketball theory for Winning Hoops, Coaching Management, Basketball Times, and Women’s Basketball Magazine and he has spoken twice at the Men’s NCAA Final Four Coaching Convention. In addition to his Read & React coaching clinics given all over the United States, he has given clinics in Belgium, Costa Rica, Norway, and Canada, including at the 2012 Basketball Manitoba Super Coaches Clinic.

In 2008, Coach Torbett completed a 5-year project called “The Read & React Offensive System” that teaches players how to play offense in the same manner that we teach them to play defense: five players moving in unison and reacting as a unit with every movement of the ball. The Read & React has produced a grass-roots movement with hundreds of “turn-around” success stories and a following of several thousand coaches from the youth level to college. (See ReadandReactTribe.com)

“What I have done with the Read & React is set up an offensive system with 5-player coordination at its heart. Traditionally, if you run a play, you get 5-player coordination but not by principle. If you play a motion game, you get principle, but not 5-player coordination. I wanted both. And I wanted it to be teachable and transferable from the youngest age and up. I could have designed it specifically for high-level teams, but then it would be like any other offense that ASSUMES a certain level of proficiency by the players. I wanted the R&R to ASSUME NOTHING about the type of players or the style of play.”

Rick played high school ball at McMinn Central High School in Englewood, Tennessee and played his college ball at Cleveland State in Cleveland Tennessee and Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee. He coached boys basketball at Chattanooga Central and Ooltewah High in Chattanooga Tennessee follow by stints at Mount Vernon Christian Academy and Holy Innocents Episcopal School in Atlanta Georgia.

Rick currently resides in Woodstock Georgia with his wife of 35 years, Cindy and his two daughters, Melissa and Amanda.

MacKay, a long-time basketball coach, mentor and educator. He is responsible for the continued development of the women’s program’s high performance athlete profile and the identification of standards against which Canada’s female athletes at the senior, development and youth levels can be measured. Through his deep knowledge base and familiarity with Canada’s player pool, MacKay provides technical leadership to the women’s Targeted Athlete Strategy (TAS) program. The native of Truro, N.S. also assists and guides the continued development of Canada Basketball’s development and age-group women’s national team coaches.

Mike has previously served as Canada Basketball’s Manager of Coaching Education and Development. MacKay recently returned from the Rio Olympics where he helped guided the Women';s National Team to a 5th place finish.

Kirby Schepp has been an active basketball coach since 1993 and is currently the Head Coach of Men's Basketball at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He was Manitoba's Canada Games Male Coach in 2009 and has served as the Head Coach of Canada Basketball’s CP Prairie Region Boy's Program from 2005 to 2009 (involved since 2001) and is one of Basketball Manitoba's most active NCCP Course Conductor (Levels 1-3). He is also very involved in the redevelopment of the NCCP model at the national level and is one of Manitoba's few Master Learning Facilitators. He held the position as Manitoba's High Performance Provincial Coach from 2007 to 2009.

His past experience with basketball coaching has been that of President of the MBCA, university assistant coach and university athlete at the University of Winnipeg. Kirby was also named both the AAAA Boys Coach of the Year and the Coaching Manitoba School System Coach of the Year in 2007. He has been a member of the Basketball Manitoba Board of Directors since 2013. Kirby has also been an assistant coach with Canada's Cadet National Team for the last 5 summers, including this past summer which saw a Silver Medal for Team Canada at the FIBA Americas Championships in Chile.

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Mike Raimbault - University of Winnipeg Men's Basketball Head Coach

Raimbault is entering his 8th season as head coach of the University of Winnipeg Men's Basketball program.

Before joining the Wesmen, Raimbault guided the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves to the Canadian College National Championship. His outstanding year was recognized as he was named the Coach of the Year.

The Brandon native has significant head coaching experience for someone so young. He was also the interim head coach for the Brandon University Bobcats in 2007-08, steering the team to a 20-2 win-loss record in Canada West play.

Raimbault is a graduate of Brandon University with degrees in Education and General Studies.

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Dan Becker, Basketball Manitoba High Performance Coach and Technical Director
Dan Becker has been an active player and coach for over 30 years at all levels of the basketball. As a coach, Dan has worked with players from grassroots community club teams to the CIS. In 2014, he led 17U Team Manitoba to its first ever Gold Medal in the male division at the Canadian National Championships. 10 Years earlier he also led the 17U men to Bronze Medal at the 2004 National Championships. Dan has also coached in the Canada Games and the Western Canada Games, bringing home a Silver Medal at the 15U age division in 2003 of the WCG. From 2005 to 2010 Dan coached with Randy Kusano and the Oak Park Raiders Varsity Boy's Program winning two Provincial Championships and making five consecutive Final Four appearances. Dan assisted at the CIS men's level from 2000 to 2004 and then assumed the interim head coaching duties during the 2004-05 with the University of Manitoba Men's Program. In 2004, Dan started coaching in the Canada Basketball Centre for Performance Program, a program he now leads as its head coach.

Dan has also coached the Linden Meadows Grade 8 girls, Manitoba Magic, and various WMBA teams, capturing the JHIT, RSL, and 3 age group WMBA Championships.

As a player, Dan played his high school basketball at Fort Richmond Collegiate and then went on to play NCAA Division 1 basketball at the University of Colorado. After graduation, Dan continued his basketball career playing 12 years for a variety of teams and leagues all over the globe playing in Spain, Israel, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Finland, and Luxembourg. Dan also played in the USLB, CBA, GBL, WBL, NBL, and the IBL...including stints with the Winnipeg Thunder and the Winnipeg Cyclone.

In the summer of 1991, Dan was invited to try-out for the Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers of the NBA. Dan's playing career also saw him represent Team Canada in the late 80's early 90's on various Student and Training National Teams including the 1989 World University Games in Germany and 2 Jones Cups in Taipei, Taiwan (1984 and 1994).

Currently, Dan is the head coach of the Basketball Canada Centre for Performance Male Program for the Manitoba region. He is the High Performance Coach for Basketball Manitoba and a Learning Facilitator in the new NCCP coaching education program. He completed his NCCP Level 4 education at the National Coaching Institute in Winnipeg. Dan is also trained in the new NCCP coursework at the Train To Compete, Train To Train, Learn To Train stages.

WOMEN IN COACHING BASKETBALL CLINIC - UPDATED LOCATION

Basketball Manitoba in partnership with Coaching Manitoba is pleased to offer an additional development opportunity for female basketball coaches to attend a pre-conference workshop on Thursday October 20, 2016 at Shamrock School. The Women in Coaching Basketball Forum will be facilitated by Bison Women's Coach Michele Hynes and Provincial Team and High School CoachSarah Lundgren, the 2 hour session will include...

Breakout discussion addressing different topic on women in coaching

Q&A with panel of former athletes coaches by different genders

Opportunity for introductions, networking and resource sharing

You will hear from some athletes who have been coached by both genders as well as have the opportunity to share, discuss, and learn from other women in coaching.There is no additional fee to attend this session and you can indicate your attendance during the Super Coaches Clinic registration process. The workshop will be limited to the first 50 people who sign up, so register now!

If you would like to attend this session and not the Friday or Saturday sessions, please email Michele Hynes at michele.hynes@umanitoba.ca. If you would like to attend the entire weekend, register below...

Basketball Manitoba, in partnership with Championship Books & Videos are pleased to offer an exclusive FREE video download to all coaches who register with this year's Super Coaches Clinic! Register for the clinic now and we will send you an exclusive link to download the full video, Dwane Casey - Essential Drills for Building a Championship Defense(2015, 1h13m)

Build your half court and transition defense with insights and drills from one of the NBA's top defensive minds

Dwane Casey breaks down his transition defense from start to finish to help you eliminate quick, easy baskets

Learn how to rotate defenders and help the helper on baseline drives to take away scoring oppurtunities

Train players to defend against dribble hand offs and prevent talented scorers from getting downhill to attack the rim

Register now for the Super Clinic and we'll send you the link to begin your download!

SUPER COACHES CLINIC SCHEDULE & TOPICS
The following is the current presentation schedule for the two days. All registrants are also invited and encouraged to attend the exclusive open practice sessions with the 4 local university basketball coaches on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday leading up to the Super Clinic. Please note that both presenters and topics are subject to change. The below schedule will be updated immediately if any changes were to be made. Can't see the schedule? CLICK HERE to view it full screenTo view this information properly on a smartphone, rotate your device to a 'landscape' position to see all the data.

Please note that due to the NHL Heritage Classic being hosted in Winnipeg that same weekend, hotel rooms city wide are already at a premium. Due to this, we were unable to secure a block of rooms for the clinic needs. We suggest using a popular hotel booking website such as Trivago to fulfill your needs.

TRAVELLING INTO THE CLINIC FROM OUTSIDE OF WINNIPEG? MANITOBA COACHES CAN APPLY FOR FINANCIAL TRAVEL SUPPORT FROM YOUR REGION! READ MORE...

MAP TO UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG DUCKWORTH CENTRE400 SPENCE STREET

When entering the Duckworth Centre, follow the signs up the main staircase to the 2nd floor. All clinic sessions will occur in the gym.

It is suggested you arrive on campus PRIOR to 8:15 AM to increase your chances of finding a spot.

Parking costs are not included in the clinic fees.

It is strongly suggested you carpool with other coaches attending the clinic to increase the chances of finding a spot or take another mode of transportation such as Winnipeg Transit or get dropped off at the gym.

Basketball Manitoba or Wesmen Athletics will assume no responsibility for any parking issues or violations incurred while at the clinic.

HISTORY & PAST PRESENTERSThe Basketball Manitoba Super Coaches Clinic was formed under the partnership of the Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association, University of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba with Basketball Manitoba. The first clinic was offered in 2009 at the University of Winnipeg and has alternated between the there and the University of Manitoba ever since. The clinic averages nearly 350 coaches in attendance each year and is the largest coaches clinic in Manitoba and the largest basketball coaches clinic in Canada! Our growing list of past presenters include...

TESTIMONIALSHere is what people have said about past Super Coaches Clinics...

Awesome job! Great value!

Awesome weekend guys......really well organized.....top notch !!!!

Basketball Manitoba is doing a tremendous job with the Super Clinic, and I can't say enough good things about it. Awesome work!

Fantastic event, I can't wait to attend next year. the calibre ofthe clinicians was great and the variety throughout the weekend kept itinteresting. Looking forward to going through the handbook as well

I enjoyed the clinic. I enjoyed seeing things I could actually usewith my grade nine girls. The different games and the warm up I reallyenjoyed, and will def. be using. I also picked up a few little tips thatI will be passing on to my kids. It was great.

I think that the clinic was very informative, and easy to follow.It seemed to be well organized. Overall it was a very good experience.

I was very impressed with the clinic. The variety of presentersand topics was excellent. The content of each presentation had somethingto offer to both the novice and experienced coach. A job well done!! -to the organizers.

I would like to first, thank all the people who organized thisyears Super Coaches Clinic. It was an amazing experience. I just startedcoaching last year at the JV girls’ level and I thought I was doing agood job but after attending this year’s clinic, you have given me thetools and knowledge to be a better coach.

Last years clinic was very good and this years was excellent.There was more relevant information presented to us this year and in aneasy to understand format. Great stuff!

The whole clinic was run well. The presenters were well worth listening to. Great ideas come from this.

You put on a great clinics thanks! I'm a first year coach and I left with lots of aspects to basketball.

Thanks SO much for the fantastic weekend of Super Coaches Clinic!I thought it was incredible and quite obvious that everyone hadinvested a ton of time into organizing and coordinating all that wentinto it. I learned a lot and really enjoyed the whole thing. Thanksagain for your hard work and dedication.

I wanted to let you know that the clinic this past weekend wasextremely well run and very informative. Please pass on my appreciationto those you helped you.

I attended the Coaches Super Clinic this Saturday and thought Iwould let you know that the clinic was fabulous. It is far and away thebest run, and informative clinic I have been to. Well done!

Great clinic this past weekend! I really got a lot out of the presentations.

Thanks again for the opportunity to present at the clinic onSaturday. You certainly did a great job of organizing it and running afirst-class event. Hope it lived up to everything you hoped for.

I just want to thank you for hosting such an amazing clinic. Itis my first year to be a head coach and I was really nervous aboutgetting going, but the presenters you selected were great and I havesome terrific ideas to get me started! I really enjoyed the gamesapproach to teaching drills!

Our men's coach was tremendously impressed with the clinic you ran this past weekend. Good job.

I was at the super coaching seminar this past Saturday. Thanks so much, the seminar was awesome.

I really enjoyed the clinic - very interesting and very well organized.

Thanks again for all the hard work you and your team did for theSuper Clinic this wknd! It was great! Super idea to combine thevarious UW/UM clinics into one, makes a whole lot of sense!

I really enjoyed the Sat morning sessions I attended - pickedup/was reminded of a few games / drills that I'll be able to use withthe kids at the next practice!

I though the two days were superb. What a great idea! Lee did awonderful job greeting us first thing on Friday and it just stayed greatthe whole weekend. I would challenge any city in North America to dobetter.

Thanks so much for the hard work. The fact that it looked easy andwent off without a hitch proves to me how hard you worked to make itthat way.

It was a great clinic. Thanks for your organization and hard work.

Awesome clinic! I learned a ton. Thanks for putting the time in.

The clinic was excellent, lots of very inspirational speakers with lots of good ideas. Thanks!

Thanks very much for having the clinic I found it very useful and Ihave used some of the drills already and the boys have really enjoyedthem.

Clinic was great. SAG is a great day to have it as the clinic is avery attractive option on this day. I enjoyed the presenters andlearned a lot of great drills. I am also happy the sessions will beonline as I'm sure I will be watching some of them again to remindmyself of some of the details.

Fantastic job! Can't wait for the video so I can make sense of my notes.

Great experience overall.....WELL DONE!

Great job on the entire day - I walked away with new tips andtricks along with some validation of what I'm doing with my team is theright stuff. I look forward to the future clinics and I'm really excitedto be part of the coaching community again. Thanks so much for a greatday!

I think that the majority of the clinic was fantastic and that itwas well put together. I definitely learned a TON of stuff which I willtry to incorporate into the upcoming season and try to keep as a coachfor future teams as well.

I thought this clinic was an excellent opportunity to improve myunderstanding of the game and advance my abilities as a coach. Therewere so many drills and ideas that would be useful teaching points atpractice that I don't think I will be able to stuff them all into thisseason, however I will try.

Overall a FANTASTIC 2 days!! I am a beginning coach (1 springseason experience 8 year old boys - now coaching winter) and even thehigher level clinics had something I could take from it. Greatpresenters, great location, great snacks and lunches and VALUABLEinformation! Well done!

Overall it was an excellent seminar with lots of information.

Overall...Excellent Observing practices and talking to the local University coaches was valuable to me. Keep this!

Thanks very much I came out of the weekend with a lot!

Thanks, overall it was a great experience!

The clinic was fabulous... easily the best run and mostinformative I have ever been to. In fact as a first time basketballcoach it was actually quite inspiring. Well done!

The clinic was well-organized and well worth attending. Good job!

This clinic was absolutely fantastic. You absolutely have to runit again, during a tournament weekend, with all those experiencedUniversity coaches!!! I cannot say enough about how good it was. I alsocoach Hockey and soccer and you can relate a lot of those drills toother sports.

Very informative 2 days....good lunches, good prizes and interesting presenters! Looking forward to next year’s clinic!

Very informative. Answered many questions. Now I know of ways to make practices more creative.

Very well organized, good selection of coaches and topics.

We thank WMBA and Basketball Manitoba for giving us (community coaches) the tools to coach to our kids.

SUPER COACHES CLINIC REGISTRATIONDeadline to Register:Wednesday October 19, 2016 at 4:30 pm Registration Fee: Attend one day at an early bird rate of $90.00 or both days for only $115.00. Early bird rates in effect to September 30 of which the regular fee of $100 and $125 will be in place following.** Please note that the WMBA is covering the full cost of any of their active coaches (community club or MBL) to attend this clinic. If you are a Club coach who is NOT in the WMBA or MBL leagues, then follow the 'School Coach' option below, **

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